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Our works attracted attention, and the Researchand Education Management of the Tourism andCulture Ministry registered us as the first sigrafittoartists”.Claiming that there are no other sigrafitto artistsin Turkey, Mr. Tunca expresses that it is their greatestdesire to introduce this art to as many peopleas possible. Stating that they have managed this toa certain extent with their individual and mixed exhibitions,Mr. Metin Tunca also tells that they havearranged 2 individual exhibitions so far. The fatherand daughter artists also attended mixed exhibitionsarranged in Istanbul, Ankara and Antalya.Stating that there are 53 works of him and his daughterin the first exhibition, Mr. Tunca tells thatthey now have almost 100 works readily availablefor exhibiting. When we ask Mr. Metin Tunca howlong it takes for a work to be done, he tells usthe following: “I can work only 3 or 4 hours adaywhile my daughter can work 7 to 8 hours. I likeworking in the daylight whereas my daughter likesworking at nights. It thus may sometimes take us3 months to complete a work”.An Art with an Expensive LaborNoting that although the material used in sigrafittois not very expensive, Mr. Tunca states that thelabor spent on it is. He also states that like manyarts and crafts, patience and self sacrifice is necessaryfor sigrafitto as well. Pointing to the fact thatthe art has many educative sides as well, he saysthe following: “I didn’t use to be so patience beforeI began engaging myself with this art, but oneacquires the talents he/she didn’t have before”.Expressing that praises received from art loverswipe away all the tiredness from creating a work,Mr. Metin Tunca states that it is both his daughter’s,and his own greatest dream that as many people aspossible get to know and love this art. After introducingenough people to this art, the greatest objectiveof the father and the daughter is to arrangeexhibitions in the US, the UK and Italy. This isnot all, though. The father and the daughter, the 2knights of sigrafitto in their own words, also desireto work on 3D objects and to exhibit these worksboth in Turkey and abroad.While Mr. Metin Tunca tells us about his dreamsand objectives about this art, our eyes explore hisand his daughter’s tableauxes exhibited on thestand allotted to them. Especially the ones wherehorses are pictured attract our attention. Wethen learn that Mr. Tunca is very much into horsesand that the portraits of Cuneyt Arkin, Turkân Sorayand Orhan Gencebay belong to him. The mosaicworks with bird, fish and horse figures that havebeen adopted to sigrafitto are as admirable as theworks with landscapes from the older Istanbul.As we think to ourselves that such a beautiful artshould be known and loved by more and more people,Mr. Tunca offers us the diary that he offersthose who visit the exhibition. We sign the diarywith our best wishes, and with thanks to them forintroducing us to this art.143